DONAHUE: I started the film a year before I actually asked Geena to come on board. German Things were looking good for you after film school. Look at what FX did. DAVIS: It did well. By what name was This Changes Everything (2015) officially released in India in English? Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. Still. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . And they got really excited. This sudden change in how people reacted when they recognized me was very, very pronounced. DAVIS: Well, no, no. The coming of sound meant they needed big capital investment. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. When, for instance, in 2017 I think, female-led films made 38 percent more money at the Box Office than male-led films. I showed her, you know, G-rated videos and little kids movies and TV shows - and, you know, obviously, there's some exceptions to that. Actress Geena Davis rallies Meryl Streep, Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon and others in this powerful documentary. This Changes Everything DOCUMENTARY Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices, This Changes Everything is a feature-length documentary that uncovers what is beneath what is one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry- the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. French So I knew that we could invoke that law to be able to change things in a very significant way. Watch all you want. So and it wasnt really until after Me Too and all that happened that we all realized, this is different now. We were made to feel very dispensable. And a lot of men would say to me when I was making the film, Well, the problem is you just follow the money. If women films made more money, of course, there would be more women films. Not rated. What were you looking for and what did you come away with? (Laughter). We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. Dutch . All rights reserved. GROSS: Well, what was wrong with that plan? He was the photographer for "Soul Train" and took photos for Jet, Ebony and the black-owned LA newspaper Soul. Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we'll ever get to build a better world? We can reflect the future now and it will make it happen. They're both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for more representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. Maria Giese is a director who felt shut out for being a woman. And this is according to the Center for the Study of Women and Television and Film in San Diego State University. DAVIS: They do. Danish . Now we will see so many more female buddy pictures, female road movies or whatever and movies about female friendship. And I was counting on my hands as I held her in my lap, and it was horrifying, and I was absolutely stunned. So they looked east to the banks to basically the patriarchal systems in the east and so they created the studio system in the west. And it was just, you know, doing a video with a casting assistant. Maybe they just thought I really wanted to, that I wanted to be such a student of film that that was my goal. And so I thought, this is an enormous problem if we are training kids from the beginning that girls are second-class citizens. After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. And I learned that he was he called himself a feminist. You know, God forbid you complain about your salary not being equal or being harassed or mistreated or discriminated against because they'll just get somebody else, you know? You were signed to a big agency. GROSS: It's like, he's short; you're really tall. MARTIN: To that point, heres a scene from the film which speaks with that with Kimberly Pierce, the director, and Chloe Grace Moretz. Bosnian Audience Score 100+ Ratings. MARTIN: Every person that Ive spoken with who have seen the film is just shocked by it. This Changes Everything Review: Hollywoods Men, Called to Action, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/movies/this-changes-everything-review.html. GIESE: Well, I understood very quickly that the numbers in and of themselves inferred violations of Title VII. DAVIS: Oh, no. The most profound threat to humanity is the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Copyright 2019 NPR. As defeated as one feels when you dont see a change happening, I really do think that it can and that it will. See production, box office & company info, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres, Late Night with Seth Meyers: Milo Ventimiglia/Geena Davis/Ex Hex/Julian Dorio. So I began to think, you know, this is maybe not just about me, and even if my own career is just about me, that doesn't answer for all the incredible, talented women everywhere that are not able to contribute their voices to our entertainment media storytelling. Crystal, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, as she fights for access to a restricted military base in search of answers about an environmental disaster in progress. About the author. . She's got a handgun, pulls it on him, asks him to apologize. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute? You go out to the parking lot with him, and he starts to rape you. And so I did. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better. So I knew the way to move the numbers and to make real significant change was through legal action. It was a small budget, and we hoped somebody would see it and not object to the ending. GIESE: Yes, Title VII, which was written into law in 1964 by President Johnson. But on the other hand, I sort of felt like, well, this is what was supposed to happen. The film brings Naomi Klein's radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of stories from people living and working on the front . Italian . Catalan You used to make a movie a year. And she's been dedicated to equality for women, more roles for women in Hollywood. This is a rush transcript. We have been told its impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do itit just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook: reining in corporate power, rebuilding local economies, and reclaiming our democracies. It's a lonely sport because you're out there for hours every day shooting by yourself. And then I was watching the Olympics in Atlanta on TV and saw the archery competing, and I thought, wow, that is so beautiful and dramatic. Women are socialized to go along with the dominant patriarch. Can we pull off these changes in time? What is the connection? DONAHUE: Well, two things. Watch all you want. 24 female police officers, firefighters, bodyguards, soldiers, athletes and stuntwomen team up by profession to compete for survival on a remote island. Written with an elegant blend of science, statistics, field reports and personal insight, it does not paralyze but buoys the reader. So let me just play that clip. I'm Terry Gross. GROSS: Maria Giese, let me move on to you. And I was so shocked when my coach said after just a few months, well, now you've got to start competing. And then maybe five years later, another movie comes out with a female star. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everyone, listen up, please. MARTIN: Well, you do interview one executive, the head of FX, John Landgraf. I think my peers and I were always operating under the assumption that you should never complain about anything. Kleinexposes the myths that are clouding the climate debate. If she can see it, she can be it. Terms Privacy Policy For Our Members Access, All rights reserved. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guests are both featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything" about discrimination against women in Hollywood. And I think its because what I decided to do was I wanted the research so I could go directly to the creators and share it with them in a private and very friendly way because I knew they didnt know what they were doing. The first film you directed was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. I haven't really ever had to describe what it's about. She is an executive producer of and is featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. I was a feminist since I was 10-years-old because I came from a very right-wing family. Geena, I want to start with you. Croatian Here it is. Once it finally begins to focus on the mission, however, This Changes Everything not only becomes engrossing but reveals itself as a crucial cri de coeur. It sets the most important crisis in human history in the context of our other ongoing traumas, reminding us just how much the powers-that-be depend on the power of coal, gas and oil. And that's when you really are tested with your mental abilities because once you have a really good shot, your job is to recreate it exactly and - every time. So I learned through him about the equal rights amendment, about Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas and that girl and I became a fan of Mary Tyler Moore. And it also struck a nerve that none of us expected. So why does the behind the camera representation matter so much? JOHN LANDGRAF, HEAD, FX: I had this unconscious bias that we would have to be making sacrifices to hire people with less experience. It was once there was a four in front of my age, and DAVIS: You know, I had heard about that for a long time, that people said that things change when you turn 40 or when you're in your 40s, but I didn't expect it to be literal. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Its one of the best things thats ever happened in my professional career. So I started making this movie. GROSS: Prevent that kind of behavior. I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater. A star-studded documentary about gender inequality in film and TV is equal parts history lesson and constructive criticism. So I learned about being a feminist through the activism of a man. And I got the part. GROSS: Geena Davis is featured in and is an executive producer of the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about the campaign for better representation of women in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV. GROSS: But you're in your underwear. The economic drivers of the carbon society are highlighted by the economic crisis in Greece in the early 2000s, where some saw the only solution to get out of the crisis being to sell off the land to the highest bidder, those highest bidders often being resource extraction companies. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic. MARIA GIESE: My first feature film directing job out of graduate film school was in England, not in the United States. And I had gone to Paris to do the collections, and in the meantime, Sydney Pollack saw my audition tape and said, hey, I like her. Well, Tom, talk a little about what the problem is if you would. GROSS: Geena Davis, Maria Giese, thank you both so much for talking with us. Naomi Kleins fourth book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in September 2014 and was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. MARTIN: I think it was Maya Angelou who said you cant be what you cant see. GIESE: I first went to the EEOC in 2013. . In 2012, my archery coach noticed that when both Brave and The Hunger Games came out, suddenly the percentage of girls taking up archery shot up 105 percent, higher than adult men. She braids together the science, psychology, geopolitics, economics, ethics and activism that shape the climate question. ', A work of startling force, exhaustive reporting, and telling anecdote . And that action alone sent the numbers skyrocketing from 0.5% to 16% in just 10 years from 1985 to 1995. GROSS: So the EEOC has been conducting an investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors. Polish It often seems that these worlds are completely . Script extract. A lot of negative reaction in the press too like, oh, no, the world is ruined now. MORETZ: The biggest part of the movie is when she gets her period for the first time in the shower. GROSS: And doesn't know where to put his eyes. The film combines talking-head interviews with drill-down stats and the backstory on legal actions taken to force accountability from studio heads. Progress will happen when men take a stand, an emphatic Meryl Streep says. Its just very elevated because its in the entertainment world. Norwegian It was night and day, where before, they might say, hey, "Beetlejuice" or something. The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography inThis Changes Everythingprovides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. MARTIN: Why do you think that was the click moment for you? And I started to do research. (Interestingly, the film was directed by a man, Tom Donahue. Im sure they knew that they were making fewer films with a female lead but they didnt they werent aware that the population of the films were profoundly imbalanced, even the extras. Its not about carbonits about capitalism. Research shows a connection between kids' healthy self-esteem and positive portrayals in media. This Changes Everything is a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. And a buddy movies are always men's movies. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis. Is that why because no studio heads appeared in this film because theyre so embarrassed? Also was named Observer Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of the Year and Margaret Atwood chose it for The Guardians Best Books of 2014 list. So what impact do you think it had both on audiences but also on Hollywood? We should be showing kids that boys and girls share the same bicycle. So Geena, will you just tell us what the title is referring to? Suddenly, they could see what they were doing, and weve yet to leave any meeting where somebody doesnt say, you just changed my project. 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